“They’re coming from behind! They’re on our asses! They’re coming on us!”
I look at my camera. “Do you think he’s doing it on purpose, chat?” Then I unmute my mic. “Over here. Crouch down and let me do the rest.”
“Oh, yes, daddy!”
“Oh my gods.”
“I’m going to run into that field. My brother in Christ. I have never been so embarrassed.”
“Don’t call methat,” I giggle.
“Sorry, I guess I assumed.”
“It’s fine,” I tell him quickly, keeping my eyes on our surroundings. “I’m a guy, but I’d rather not have you call me brother in the same breath as us flirting.”
There’s a pause before he snorts. “Yeah, okay. That’s so fair. I’m still going to run into a bullet real quick to end my misery.”
“Not until after I take out these other people real quick. As a professional streamer, it’s kinda wild you don’t know how to mute your mic.”
“I know how to do it! I just… you know, forget!”
Two people are fighting each other across the field from us. One takes out the other and I quickly shoot the one left over. We’re down to six people remaining.
“You’re really good at this game. How did you end up in this lobby of noobs?”
“You’re not a noob either,” I say right away and then find myself blushing. “We’ve played in tournaments before.”
“Oh,” Rodney says, “we have? Really? I think I would have remembered meeting you. You’re so--” his voice cuts off.
“Did you finally mute?”
There’s a pause. “Maybe.”
I chuckle as I get my character to lay on its belly, crawling between trees. I see someone running and I shoot, nailing them and taking them out. There’s another fight going on and instead of waiting, I take shots at both of them.
“The way I would absolutely--”
“Rodney!”
“Right. Sorry.”
“To answer your question, this is my smurf account.” A smurf account is a secondary account gamers use when they’re tryingto play against people of lower rank than their main account. This way, I’m not forced into ranked games and can play more casually. It also makes it harder for viewers to crash into the same game as me because they all know my main account name. “I needed one last win before I could end stream. I figured this would be the easiest way.”
I watch as someone on our right misclicks a grenade and blows themself up. I stand my character up from its crouch, looking down at Rodney.
“I guess this is it. I kept you safe through the whole game.”
“I have a lot of things to say about this experience but I’ll wait until I’m muted this time.”
That blush is back and I hide my face behind my hands for a moment, completely ignoring chat because I justknowthey’re saying all sorts of teasing shit. I focus back on the game.
“We could have an old western standoff,” Rodney proposes.
“It was nice meeting you, Rodney,” I say before shooting him and winning the game. I turn to the camera with a chuckle, hitting the buttons to make my character start dancing over Rodney’s body on the win screen.
SnowsOffspring(vip): That was HILARIOUS
JumpingNinja: GG!
